Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced sweeping emergency rules on Friday to tighten who can obtain licenses to drive tractor-trailers in the United States, calling the current system a “national emergency” after a series of deadly crashes linked to foreign drivers operating with improperly issued credentials. Speaking at the Transportation Department headquarters, Duffy described the practice […]
Prosecutors believe there were political motivations behind the shooting at a California ABC affiliate. Retired California lobbyist, Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, was ordered to remain in custody without bail Thursday after prosecutors said he continued to pose a threat and was a flight risk who was still in possession of a gun. He was charged […]
Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be […]
FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday rejected what he called “wildly false accusations” that the bureau is politicizing law enforcement now that the Trump administration has indicted former Director James Comey. “Career FBI agents, intel analysts, and staff led the investigation into Comey and others. They called the balls and strikes and will continue to […]
EXCLUSIVE — A conservative organization is underscoring President Donald Trump’s work supporting homegrown agriculture production and food security amid his tariff war with China with a new advertisement campaign. The six-figure ad buy by the Protecting America Initiative, a nonprofit organization, on Friday comes after Trump this week announced that some of the $165.2 billion […]
The Chicago city council voted unanimously Thursday to pay $90 million for 176 people who were victims of a corrupt former police sergeant. The settlement puts to rest 180 lawsuits related to people who were framed by disgraced former police Sgt. Ronald Watts for drug crimes they did not commit. The settlement marks the end […]
The federal Bureau of Prisons said it’s ending a collective bargaining agreement for unionized employees because “it’s time for change,” marking the Trump administration‘s latest anti-union move. BOP Director William Marshall III announced the news Thursday night, calling the Council of Prison Locals 33 labor union “an obstacle to progress instead of a partner in […]
EXCLUSIVE – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is introducing legislation to tighten access to Mifepristone by reinstating in-person requirements to obtain the abortion pill, a move that would effectively ban sending the drug by mail. Miller’s “Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act,” obtained by the Washington Examiner, would direct the Food and Drug Administration to […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday ordering his top prosecutors to seek the death penalty “in all appropriate cases” in Washington, D.C. The new order succeeds a January directive to use the death penalty more broadly. “You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, a law enforcement officer — death penalty,” Trump […]
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to call former FBI Director James Comey a “destroyer of lives” after he was indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation, adding he must pay a “very big price.” A grand jury issued the federal indictment on Thursday, charging Comey with […]
